Born in
Kansas City, Missouri and raised by adoptive parents in Oklahoma, Starr attended
Coffeyville Junior College and then the
University of Kansas, where he played football and baseball. He served in the army from February 1955 to February 1956 and was stationed at
Fort Gordon, Georgia, where he was a private first class and played baseball. Following this, he had a three week trial with the
Brunswick Pirates, a
Pittsburgh Pirates farm team in Brunswick, Georgia. Starr would spend most of his career in
Anaheim, California, where he called
Los Angeles Rams football and
California Angels baseball from 1980 to 1989. During his years in St. Louis and Anaheim, Starr also broadcast several football bowl games. In 1990, Starr returned to Boston to replace
Ken Coleman on
Red Sox radio. Starr would spend three years with the Red Sox before returning to call Rams and Angels games.
Steve Physioc would replace Starr on Rams radio network in 1994 and Starr would retire from Angels radio network in 1997. Starr died at his home in Orange, California, August 3, 1998 of respiratory failure and
pulmonary fibrosis. ==References==